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Saw Asoka Handagama's Ini Avan last night at the opening of the European Film Festival, courtesy an invitation by the Festival curator, Anoma Rajakaruna .  Thank you, Anoma!  A Tamil Language film produced by a Sinhala Director, I found the film quite gripping and sensitive to the issues that its main protagonist, the returning rehabilitated LTTE combatant, is faced with.  I also found the portrayal of the three women in the film, the stoic mother, his upper caste love, and the much knocked around, wife of the displaced security guard, equally fascinating.  The title of the film is translated as Him Hereafter - but a lot of it is about "Her"! A key line of the film is "We don't have new lives, only opportunities to start our old ones anew"  -  this sadly belies the transformative capacity of disasters and conflict. Go see it when you get a chance.  English subtitles.